Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usWed, 11 Jan 2012 00:57:16 +0000No fair, Google! Twitter and others respond to Search Plus Your Worldhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/google-twitter-search-your-world-plus-protest/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/cb/2a/cb2ae89d23cea27ff66a4385cfeb3b3b.jpg'></p><p>
Boxers Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao may have launched the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao-twitter/">biggest beef on Twitter today</a>, but the microblogging site&#39;s brass was busy sparring in another ring. They were taking a stance against Google and the newly launched<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html"> Search Plus Your World</a>.</p>
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Tuesday&#39;s tweak on the world&#39;s most popular search engine will bury the live feed of relevant tweets below search results tied to activity in users&rsquo; Google+ circles. Twitter believes that shift goes against the very democracy and white hat practices that Google preaches.</p>
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&quot;Twitter has emerged as a vital source of this real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million Tweets every day on virtually every topic,&quot; Twitter announced today in a statement. &quot;As we&#39;ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant results.&quot;</p>
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Within communities like Twitter and<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/oav7z/googles_new_search_features_that_blend_google/"> Reddit</a>, there&#39;s a similar sense that Search Your World Plus shows how Google has lost sight of what it&#39;s powerful search engine is all about.</p>
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&quot;Not sure this is an improvement,&quot;<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/oav7z/googles_new_search_features_that_blend_google/c3fupw6"> posted</a> Reddit user<a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/blisk"> blisk</a>. &quot;honestly I think over time you&#39;ll end up with more bullshit you have to sort through.&quot;</p>
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&quot;Sorry but from what i have seen about this so far it just comes across as creepy,&quot;<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/oav7z/googles_new_search_features_that_blend_google/c3fwp43"> added</a> user<a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/anillop"> anillop</a>. &quot;Using my location to come up with customized results is fine but this just seems very invasive. It honestly makes me reconsider having signed up for google+.&quot;</p>
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Privacy invasion is one thing, but Twitter user Paige Maguire (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/fluxistrad">@fluxistrad</a>) might have summed up the negative feelings best in her 5pm<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/fluxistrad/status/156857874943967232"> ET tweet</a>, writing: &quot;Ugh, because I&#39;m probably Googling to ESCAPE my world.&quot;<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="527" scrolling="no" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Z9TTBxarbs?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<em>Photo&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/">birgerking</a></em></p>
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<em>Correction: An earlier version of this story referred to Google&#39;s new search tool as &quot;Search Your World Plus.&quot; It is &quot;Search Plus Your World.&quot;</em></p>
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chase@dailydot.com (Chase Hoffberger)Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:57:16 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/google-twitter-search-your-world-plus-protest/NewsGoogle